Writing Quotes - Page 13

I recognized my work for what it was-as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

Genetic code is a divine writing.

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.

This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.

I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.